To find repeats in a genome from 2 to 9 length using a Perl script, you can use the RepeatMasker tool with the "--length" option[0]. Here's a step-by-step guide:

• Using state of the art tools, easily extended for other viruses

• Tool and database updates for critical components via Conda

• Built using modern design patterns with Conda and Snakemake

• Extensible and easy to customize

• Submission Ready Genomes

• Customizable reporting with comprehensive visualization

https://ikim-essen.github.io/uncovar/

Github https://github.com/IKIM-Essen/uncovar

Address of the bookmark: https://ikim-essen.github.io/uncovar/

Overview of SLiM and msprime

SLiM: Forward Genetic Simulator

SLiM is a free, open-source tool designed for forward genetic simulations. It allows researchers to model complex evolutionary scenarios, including selection, recombination, and demographic events, making it particularly useful for studying adaptation and selection in populations.

Key Features of SLiM:

• Simulates population evolution forward in time

• Supports custom evolutionary models using an embedded scripting language

• Allows modeling of spatial and ecological dynamics

• Provides high flexibility and extensibility for user-defined scenarios

• Available on GitHub as an open-source project

msprime: Ancestry and Mutation Simulator

msprime is an efficient, open-source tool that simulates ancestry and mutations using a coalescent framework. It is known for its high-speed performance and low memory requirements, making it a popular choice for large-scale genomic simulations.

Key Features of msprime:

• Implements coalescent simulations for ancestry modeling

• Efficiently simulates large population histories

• Supports the addition of mutations to genealogies

• Developed using an open-source community model

• Often faster and more memory-efficient than alternative simulators

Using SLiM and msprime with slendr

Both SLiM and msprime can be integrated with slendr, a framework that facilitates structured population genetic simulations. This integration allows for seamless comparison of simulation outputs.

How They Work Together:

• SLiM and msprime simulations can be analyzed within slendr.

• The ts_read() function in slendr enables loading and comparing tree sequence outputs from both simulators.

• This integration allows researchers to validate simulation results and gain deeper insights into evolutionary processes.

Performance Considerations

While SLiM offers powerful forward simulations with extensive customization, msprime is often preferred for its speed and memory efficiency when simulating ancestry and mutations. The choice between the two depends on the research goals:

• For detailed evolutionary modeling with selection and recombination: Use SLiM.

• For large-scale coalescent simulations with mutations: Use msprime.

• For comparing different simulation models and their outputs: Use slendr to integrate SLiM and msprime results.

Conclusion

SLiM and msprime are valuable tools for genome simulation, each serving distinct but complementary purposes in population genetics research. By leveraging the strengths of both simulators with slendr, researchers can conduct robust and efficient evolutionary simulations, enhancing our understanding of genetic diversity and adaptation.

For more information, check out the official GitHub repositories for SLiM and msprime, and explore the slendr framework for streamlined simulation workflow

Below you can find a few basic tutorials for how to run MITObim and I encorage you to give them a try with the testdata that comes with this Repo, just to make sure everything is running smoothly on your system. It'll only take a few minutes and will potentially safe you a lot of time down the line.

I provide further examples here as Jupyter notebooks. Get in touch if you feel like sharing your particular MITObim solution and I'd be happy to put it up here, too!

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/chrishah/MITObim

• outperforms PacBioToCA/LSC in terms of accuracy and contiguity/sensitivity (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu392)
• is easy to install/run/configure
• supports various types of dat
  • HiSeq/MiSeq (100-500bp)
  • Unitigs
  • 454, ...

proovread maps high coverage data to pacbio reads (bwa mem, blasr, daligner) in multiple iterations.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/BioInf-Wuerzburg/proovread

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/pbmm2

You can also add your favourite NGS educational material, or workshop tutorial by commenting on this bookmarks for user benefit. 

Understanding the basics of genome sequencing:

Tutorial by Luke Jostins.

http://www.genetic-inference.co.uk/blog/2009/04/basics-sequencing-dna-part-1/

http://www.genetic-inference.co.uk/blog/2009/08/basics-sequencing-dna-part-2/

A window into third-generation sequencing

http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/R2/R227.full.pdf

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NGS data analysis pipelines

• Detecting and annotating genetic variations using the HugeSeq pipeline  DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2134
• NARWHAL, a primary analysis pipeline for NGS data http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/2/284?etoc
• RseqFlow: Workflows for RNA-Seq data analysis  DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr441
• ngs_backbone: a pipeline for read cleaning, mapping and SNP calling using Next Generation Sequence  10.1186/1471-2164-12-285
• A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data  PubMed: 21478889
• SNiPlay: a web-based tool for detection, management and analysis of SNPs. Application to grapevine diversity projects  DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-134 Abstract: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/134/abstract
• WEP: a high-performance analysis pipeline for whole-exome data http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/S7/S11
• DDBJ read annotation pipeline: a cloud computing-based pipeline for high-throughput analysis of next-generation sequencing data. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23657089
• GATK: a Toolkit for Genome Analysis http://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/
• Metagenomics:http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/course-schedule/ngsmetagenomics/
• RNASeq:http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/course-schedule/ngsrnaseq/
• Bioinformatics and Seq courses: http://www.isb-sib.ch/training/training-activities-schedule/archive-2013.html
• Variant Detection (Model organism) Advanced tutorial https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1CuKkKylVDb03tnN7RSWl5EUzleetn0ctjmvaidPKLxM
• Variant Detection Introductory tutorial https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ZRzrjjOCvtAu3m-IKL-rbJ1f4On60dDL_IEwG7oejdI
• Microbial de novo Assembly for Illumina Data Introductory tutorial https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1N3AB9ptISUu4zULqe1kXpVF0BDyGb5f5yzxWSJd_WNM
• RNAseq Differential Gene Expression Introductory tutorial https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1KbTiBHtvHLfPRZ39AY3uriazrINA8TJzgjjwn1zPP7Y

" Please add your favourite NGS link below in comment section for the benefit of bioinformatics community ". 

Address of the bookmark: http://chagall.med.cornell.edu/NGScourse/

TULIP currently consists of to Perl scripts, tulipseed.perl and tulipbulb.perl. These are very much intended as prototypes, and additional components and/or implementations are likely to follow. 
Tulipseed takes as input alignments files of long reads to sparse short seeds, and outputs a graph and scaffold structures. Tulipbulb adds long read sequencing data to these.

https://github.com/Generade-nl/TULIP

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/Generade-nl/TULIP

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/lmcai/PhyloHerb/